Greater New Orleans

Victim of Baton Rouge office shooting out of hospital

Mark Saltz / The Advocate via Associated PressShooting suspect Richard Matthews is escorted by police officers as a reporter, left, follows in Baton Rouge on Wednesday. The former employee of a Baton Rouge construction company was arrested in the shooting deaths of two people and the wounding of a third at the company's offices, authorities said.A woman wounded in an office shooting that killed two of her co-workers has been released from a hospital.

Authorities initially said the woman suffered life-threatening injuries but she was released from the hospital several hours after Wednesday's shooting at the offices of Grady Crawford Construction Company. Her name wasn't released.

A former employee of the Baton Rouge construction company was arrested in the deaths of 44-year-old Dianna Tullier, of Walker, and 55-year-old Cheryl Boykin, of Denham Springs.

The suspect, 53-year-old Richard Matthews, of Slaughter, was booked into the parish prison on two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder.